25 September 2025 · Director’s academic participation
Prof. Yan Kapranov joined an online session of the 7th International Conference of Applied Linguistics, “Languages and People,” hosted at Vilnius University’s Faculty of Philology on 25–27 September 2025. The session addressed research on Ukrainians in the Baltic and Nordic region, including language identity, refugee experiences and digital humanities resources.
Interpreting services in Finland
Together with Eduard Diladi and Maria Frick, Kapranov contributed the video presentation “Ukrainians’ Experiences with Language Interpretation Services in Finland.” According to the centre’s report, the presentation explored institutional interpreting practices and linguistic challenges faced by displaced Ukrainians in Finnish contexts.
The original report also notes presentations on Ukrainian refugees in Estonian schools, language identity in Lithuania, and Ukrainian youth in Finland and Hungary. Participation described here was online; the conference venue was Vilnius University.
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